[applause] >> thank you, everyone.

>> you hear me but i hear you still. i hear you. we've got a few -- a little while in the program. we're almost there for the schmoozing part. so thank you mayor farrell for your leadership and for making this ground breaking commitment and frankly for your belief in me and your confidence in our city and my colleagues that we will get this done. because when cities lead, states and nations follow. this is how we heal the planet

and leave it better shaped than we found it. so -- so recently, i had the opportunity to travel to mexico city and i attended the women for climate summit organized by c40 and led by the mayors of mexico city and paris. i was joined by the fear less president of our commission on the environment and it was so reward to go meet women from around the world especially young women to talk about climate change. adriana is one of those women. she is a trail blazing environmentalist who has developed her own business collecting mexico city's organic waste by bicycle and turning it

into a valuable resource. and let me just say to follow-up on the mayor's remarks, here in san francisco we don't believe in building walls we believe in building bridges to the people of mexico. [applause] >> so please, give a warm san francisco welcome to adriana, ruiz almeda. >> hi. good morning to everybody. my name is a degre is a is adri.

i'm thrilled to be here to share my story with you and how i became a women for climate leader. during my personal history, i have had the opportunity to get to know really great actors, people that are fighting against climate change and to be able to sustainable and resiliency and all her team. so, thank you for the introduction and you aspire your leadership. i have the pressure the women's requirement for mexico city and i never thought that opportunity would let me talk to you in front of a lot of people and a lot of leaders that i am doing on their scale. what a fortune with that.

also i'm passionate about reducing waste and getting organics out of the landfill. i come here in san francisco as you have a zero waste city. too many of us throughout the world look at you. you have shown the world that it's possible to make a bold commitment and the zero waste is more than just a goal it's the way we should be leaving. i would like -- [applause] i would like to share it with you to make a little bit more waste initiative and why i'm so into making some of the largest cities in the world sustainable. as debbie mentioned, i'm part of the women's requirement movement and also i am a climate leader recently trained in mexico city but in many ways, i am starting my career in sustainability.

i am near mexico city, not in the city and i started my career as a banking and finance. i was really committed to be one successful executive in banking. i wanted to head the world and i was doing so by my style of my lifestyle. my consumer lifestyle. and then without caring about my data i was gathering. the change in me didn't come like suddenly, i did not wake up some morning and what am i doing and i just questioned my lifestyle and something that did not make more much sense in my life was increasingly evidence to me that i was doing something wrong and also, my peers.

i wasn't sustainable in a personal level so i decided to change and to pursue a master in sustainability and spain where i focused primarily on the agri food system and i strengthened my feelings that there was something that i can do. i spent five years in academia uncertain about what it could be leading me and when i returned to mexico city five years later, it seems to me that mexico city environmental issues have only increased in my absence. i personally experienced a week without water on my apartment so it was really like shocking that such a city of mexico is having this huge problem and we need to address them. i had a much knowledge but little practice so i decided it

was time to set out my own to solve solutions with the growing need in mexico city that is to address the food waste. organic waste management, especially in the mega cities like mexico city is carrying many logistical challenges and a lot of environmental impacts. particularly because people took enough care doing a good sorting of the waste and there's not a secondary market he on organic waste precisely so there's were my years in banking so i took my study on financial background and began thinking about how to create a economy in in order to reduce waste impact. i started with the two amazing partners to focus on assistance and in the city with our organic waste and to help them cover the

waste turning to a valuable commodity energy and our targets are small business that generates 50 culgrams for date of waste. we held this business sort their waste, collect it and then utilize it in a buy owe gas plan we are piloting in mexico to turn this waste into some field they can provide facts to their business. we want to be a benchmark of what it needs to be done in a waste energy sector and i am inspired to be part of the zero waste movement and when you are able to see that there they are each doing in our cities is connecting to a greater world is really aspiring me to be here and to get to know a lot of science people that is

struggling with this climate issues. i struggle now as a social responsibility professor to motivate my students to feel inspired and take action. we need to show our young people and everyone that our actions matter and when people see every day people like you and me doing things it is to do the same and it's the same in the city. cities like san francisco aspire in action throughout the world and we believe we have a lot to learn from you and also that we have a lot to share with you as a mega-city that is also facing these issues. i know that it's going to be the global climate action that's made it happen this year in september so it's my hope that mexico city will be here and be represented and that we will continue to find ways in such

our two cities can work together along with the cities throughout the world. thank you for in inviting me here today and i hope to be here in september also and also thank you for all of these great inspirations that you bring to the world. also, as a city that is like a benchmark and that is really a city that we look to collaborate and be here in september. thank you. [applause] >> so i have to say she did that in english. so let's just all of us who do not speak spanish say amazing. [applause] thank you, adriana and we look

forward to continuing to learn from you. mexico city, san francisco, two great cities in this planet have a lot to learn from each other. we're not alone in this battle against climate change. so i have now, as we start to wrap-up, i want to give a call out to a couple people i did not see but now i see. so our fire chief joanne haze white, thank you for all your support. [applause] and thea sellby of the college board, thank you for the leadership of our community college. [applause] we could not put on this event without the generous support of our sponsors and it feels like this year we actual low have more sponsors which say great sign-in terms of how engage our business community is. i'd like to thank them for their

support. if you are enjoying today, you are thanking them along with me. so first, kaiser permente. thank you. [applause] arcadus. [applause] levi strauss, where are you guys? and sales force, where are you guys? thank you. [applause] and then i'd also like to thank, from the depth of my heart, another planet entertainment blue shield of california, c40 cities, five point, san francisco giants, hospital council of northern and central california, mcdonald's, r.m.w. architecture and interiors, united airlines and wells fargo. let's give them a big round of

applause. and my final thank you goes out to the people i work with every day who inspire me and fill me with such such deep gratitude. the staff of the department of environment. [applause] so in closing, we're starting today row reflecting on what it means to lose what we've got. but we know that all is not lost. especially when we commit to take action on behalf of our planet earth. we have much work to do and we have much to celebrate too. which is why i want to send you off on an unbeat note to help us get motivated to reach our new

80% transportation goal. thank you m.t.a., yeah. we've invited the san francisco cable car chorus to close out today's o break fast with a song about our city. [applause] [♪] ♪ we'd like to welcome you to san francisco ♪ ♪ the city by the bay ♪ let's ring the cord on the cable car ♪ ♪ come on and chase the blue away ♪ ♪ the closest you'll get to heaven ♪ ♪ and right here in our town ♪ when you ring a cord on a cable car ♪ ♪ you feel so high you may never come down ♪

♪ long and the golden gate ♪ will thrill you through and through ♪ ♪ they love and chinatown ♪ are waiting just for you ♪ but the closest you will ever get to heaven ♪ ♪ is right here in our town ♪ when you ring a cord on a cable car ♪ ♪ you feel so high you may never come down ♪ when you ring a cord on a cable car ♪ ♪ when you ring ♪ ring ring ring ring ring ring ♪ ♪ you'll feel so high ♪ you'll never come down [applause]

>> thank you all. have a wonderful earth day. happy earth day and enjoy each other for the! good-bye! thank you, thank you for being here!

[gavel] the meeting will come to order. welcome to the april 25t2018 regular meeting of the public safety and jade services committee i am. >> supervisor sheehy: and to my right is. >> supervisor ronen: and to my left is -- subbing in. i would like to thank jesse